Hitting the same vein as Garbage's "Big Bright World," this is slay-lady-slay alt-rock with Loudness Wars production ka-boom, given emotional nuance (in this case) by Emily Haines' chillingly tingly, seen-enough-of-this-shtick, only half-rhetorical entreaty: "Is this my life? / Whoa-oh-ohhh / Am I breathing underwater?" The answer lies in the way her finely worn lilt breathtakingly cascades with more and more defiance. C.A.